Mary Cay Burger, her brother John who is visiting from Spokane, and I visited Red Rocks Park this morning about 9 a.m. I put out some seed and the flock of 40-50 rosy-finches that were hanging out in the crevices of the rock wall came in to feed, along with all 5 juncos, one Song Sparrow, one Am Tree Sparrow, scrub jays, many House Finches including one yellow male. I did not see the Golden-crowned Sparrow, but I was photographing the rosys. Found a Northern Shrike in the Shiprock Parking lot.
Then we went up to 138th and Harvest Dr in Adams Co. about 1 p.m. and found, along with two other birders, the juv Snowy Owl along the same pipeline parallel to 138th and directly north of it, the same place that I saw it on 8 Jan. As Doug said yesterday, from the corner of Harvest Dr, turn west about ΒΌ mi and park along the edge of the road. Look north and the SNOW sits along that pipeline. It seems to have more white on the top and top back of the head than it did in Jan, IF it is the same bird. I photographed it and will see if they turned out. It was sitting in a clump of weeds. We stopped at Barr L. Flushed 26 robins out of a couple of shelterbelts, but nothing else. The lake is partially melted. I counted 22 Bald Eagles on the ice or in the cottonwoods. Of those, 9 were juvs. We also saw a Merlin hunting near Barr L. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography <mailto:k...@kayniyo.com> k...@kayniyo.com <http://www.KayNiyo.com> www.KayNiyo.com ______________________________ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
